The Market for Retirement Financial Advice
Edited by Olivia S. Mitchell and Kent Smetters
Author Information
Olivia S. Mitchell, International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans Professor, Professor of Insurance/Risk Management and Business Economics/Policy, and Director, Pension Research Council & Boettner Center for Pensions and Retirement Research, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania,Kent Smetters, Boettner Chair Professor, the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Olivia S. Mitchell is Department Chair and International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans Professor of Insurance and Risk Management, and Professor of Business and Public Policy, as well as Director of the Pension Research Council and the Boettner Center on Pensions and Retirement Research at the Wharton School. Concurrently Dr. Mitchell is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Co-Investigator for the AHEAD/Health and Retirement Studies at the University of Michigan. Her main areas of research and teaching are pensions, insurance and risk management, public finance and labor markets, with an international focus. She received the B.A. in Economics from Harvard University and the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Kent Smetters is the Boettner Chair Professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research examines incomplete markets, investment risk management, and the interaction of risk management and public policy. Previously, he worked at the Congressional Budget Office and served as Economics Policy Coordinator for the US Treasury. He received his Bachelor's degrees in Economics and Computer Science from The Ohio State University and his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University.
Contributors:
Andrew G. Biggs, Resident Scholar, the American Enterprise Institute.
Jason Bromberg, Assistant Director of Financial Markets and Community Investment, the US Government Accountability Office (GAO).
Alicia P. Cackley, Director in the Financial Markets and Community Investment team, the U.S. Government Accountability Office.
Michael Finke, Associate Professor and Director of Ph.D. studies in Personal Financial Planning, Texas Tech University.
Mathew Greenwald, President, Mathew Greenwald & Associates, Inc.
Andreas Hackethal, Professor of Finance and Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Goethe University Frankfurt.
Paula H. Hogan, Founder, Paula Hogan.
Sarah Holden, Senior Director of Retirement and Investor Research, the Investment Company Institute (ICI).
Kelli Hueler, CEO and founder, Hueler Companies.
Angela A. Hung, Senior Economist, RAND, Director of the Center for Financial and Economic Decision Making, and Associate Director for the RAND Roybal Center on Financial Decisionmaking, RAND.
Roman Inderst, Finance Professor, Goethe University Frankfurt.
Christopher L. Jones, Chief Investment Officer and Executive Vice President of investment management, Financial Engines.
Arthur Laby, Professor of Law, Rutgers University School of Law in Camden, New Jersey.
Robert Mayer, Professor in the Department of Family and Consumer Studies, the University of Utah.
Frederick H. Miller, management consultant and founder, Sensible Financial.
Olivia S. Mitchell, International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans Professor of Insurance/Risk Management and Business Economics/Public Policy, the Wharton School, the University of Pennsylvania.
Dana M. Muir, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Business Law, the Stephen M. Ross School of Business, the University of Michigan.
Alicia Munnell, the Peter F. Drucker Professor of Management Sciences, Carroll School of Management, Boston College.
Anna Rappaport, actuary, consultant, author, and speaker, Anna Rappaport Consulting.
Lisa Schneider, Research Director, Greenwald & Associates.
Jason Scott, Managing Director, the Financial Engines Retiree Research Center.
Kent Smetters, the Boettner Chair Professor, the Wharton School, the University of Pennsylvania, and Faculty Research Fellow, the National Bureau of Economic Research.
John A. Turner, Director of the Pension Policy Center.
Anthony Webb, research economist, the Center for Retirement Research, Boston College.
Joanne K. Yoong, Economist at RAND and Professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School.
Cathleen D. Zick, Professor in the Department of Family and Consumer Studies, and Director of the Master of Public Policy program, the University of Utah.
